I just love his floppy ears and adorable little face! In this picture he looks like he's smiling, though what goat wouldn't be smiling to get a big barn built just for them and get cuddled and petted all the time?

Hannah is not so keen on getting petted… her focus is more on food than getting petted, so Shadow usually gets all the petting, rubbing, and scratching. Well, maybe not all of it, but most of it! (can anyone tell that Shadow's my favorite?? LOL) They are really enjoying their big new barn, with a big stall all to themselves!

Sunny is turning in to a pretty good little barn cat. He stayed outside most of the day yesterday, except for the few times when Mom took him back in the barn to get something to eat. Since he's gonna be an outside cat, he just better get used to being outside a lot! I think he enjoys it though.

All his kitty life before we got him he spent inside, so he really likes to explore and check everything out outside. Unfortunately for him, he tends to think that Hannah and Shadow's floppy ears are something to be batted at… but Hannah and Shadow don't agree wtih him at all!! Shadow has already tried to bash him into the ground with his head a couple of times, but Sunny's been too quick for him and jumped clear out of the way!

We were trying to figure out something to make so Sunny could get from the downstairs of the barn up to the loft, since he likes to be up there in all the hay… so Dad built this catwalk.

It's actually pretty neat, he walks up on the bottom one, gets to the end of that board, turns, and jumps on to the one right above and walks up to the loft. He can also get down by using it, though he tends to like to jump down the side of the barn (on the lowest end, of course!).

Hehehe, I just LOVE this picture of Jesse! It was taken completely on accident, but it looks aboslutely hilarious! His face looks soo funny! Ok, so the background around him wasn't that blurry on the original, but I cropped Jesse out and blurred the background behind him to give it a neat effect.

The look on his face seems to be saying, "Ahem, WHY were you taking my picture, Lacy?" Ah, I love my guineas!

Mom says, "Lacy, which one do I have?" (Side note, I don't understand why everyone else can't tell my little guineas apart! Especially Sam, he's so obvious! ) My answer, "That's Sammy!" 

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With all this chilly weather coming in, it's time to break out the wool socks, flannel shirts, and coats! Not to mention my cayenne and kelp, to keep me from getting soo cold!

Some of you might've noticed my new blog theme I've got up. What do you think of it? I figured it was about time for a change, since everything outside is changing and that last header image had been up since June (it was a picture of the chicory I had taken at Gran & Pap's).. I really like the new header image, though perhaps that's because I took it myself, LOL! With a little GIMP editing, it turned out real nice.

On top of working on that, practicing my photography, I've also been busy on Stablishing Hearts and Thy Word Forever.. The new articles up on SH include "What IS a Christian?", "A meek and quiet spirit", and "True Beauty". If anybody has any suggestions for new articles we could write, or something you'd like us to write about, please feel free to write/comment and let me know!

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Psalm 118:24 ~

Fall is definitely here.. the leaves are changing colors (rather rapidly too, now that they've started, I might add!) and are falling everywhere. Megan is back at her home now, we just returned from WV yesterday.

Practicing my portrait photography on Megan & Levi

Rather interesting shot of a caterpillar I snapped today!

I love this one!

Gabriel scaring away all the frogs I was going to photograph!

I thought it was kinda funny how Jesse's wings look in this one!

I snapped this shot of our neighbor's horse when we went for a walk one day.. My favorite!

Well, umm. Not quite sure what to say about this one, except that right before I snapped this, he was looking at me! Very interesting head-twist thing going on there.. LOL!

Megan & Levi standing in front of some pines.. taking pictures!

Levi and Megan walking through the field.

Megan

A pink morning glory I spotted while we were taking a walk.

There you have it! My collection of recent photos. I hope you've enjoyed them. I intend to, Lord willing, get back into a regular schedule of posting here (that is, if I don't bore ya'll ), that way it's not such a long stretch between my posts!

Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. (Romans 12:9)

Even though the world makes halloween seem "cute" and "harmless", the warning still remains in Scripture; Little children, let no man deceive you! We are to abhor that which is evil, no matter how "cute" the world makes it look.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (2 Corinthians 6:17)

We really had fun, though Megan and I are a bit wore out after all that pedaling.. LOL!

The lake really made for some good pictures (though by looking at them on the camera I wasn't sure if they had turned out!) and I thought the picture of the water and rocks looked pretty neat!

It is a bit challenging to, while riding my bike, to get my camera out of the camera bag (which is in the camera bag carrier basket attatched to the front of my bike), stay on the road, put the camera strap around my neck, open the LCD screen that I have flipped in the other way, take off the lens cap and attach it to the camera strap, then…..(I do hope I'm not boring you with this lengthy explanation!) turn on the camera, change the shutter speed, and snap the picture. All the while driving with one hand… or occasionally, no hands!

Anyhow, back to the pictures!

The water made a wonderful background for group/profile pictures! I thought it looked really nice! Well, just so long as you didn't fall backwards and land in the water, I suppose… which I almost did a time or two (where Megan and I are standing in our picture, we were on a concrete slope, [note the first picture with Levi] standing right at the bottom by the water).

Oh yes, and we even got to see a bald eagle! I tried to snap a shot of him while he was flying, but it didn't turn out so well since he didn't give me much time to change the shutter speed! Oh well, at least you can somewhat see what he looked like!

Oooh, and chicory! You know I have to get pictures of flowers if we stop near any.. LOL!! Well, I hope you enjoyed this little glimpse into our day!

So, to start off this new adventure, let us begin with question #1….

What did Christ say at the end of his "good Samaritan" story?

Mind you, no looking up the answer! Do this from your memory!

"Thus far, we have been disappointed with the selection of online magazines available for young ladies, seeing as they promote false doctrines and ideas and are leading many young women astray, we felt compelled to begin our own magazine where we could share Biblical truth, as found in God's holy, precious, inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word, with others. Therefore we began Stablishing Hearts, and are greatly looking forward to being able to share our writings with you!" ~ From About SH

We had been wanting to start a magazine blog of our own for quite some time now, and just recently got the opportunity to do so, and we're pretty excited about it! I hope you will be encouraged, and challenged by our articles there.

Please go check it out, and I do hope you enjoy Stablishing Hearts magazine!

As you can see, we've gotten a LOT of progress done on the barn since my last post. Got the siding up, stalls are getting completed, and got the barn painted (more painted than the picture above shows.. I haven't gotten a new far away picture yet, that one was from a couple days ago I think).

I think that color is a very pretty, almost rustic red. Not nearly as bright a red as our other buildings are painted in, I think they were done in something called "polished apple".

As you can probably tell from the pictures above, Megan is still here with us, and should probably be here till the end of October (Yay!). We've already went on a bike ride out to the Bumpass Park (the flower pictures were taken on the way home) and taken a walk through the woods, and at the end of that walk we had to rush home because … … you should be able to guess the answer. We must've managed to walk through a patch of seedticks!

They didn't attach on anyone else but me, and I've got at least 25 bites around my right ankle. And they sure do itch! LOL! We did get to see something exciting though when we took that walk, something we've never got to see before. ^^ It's up above on the bottom row of the pictures between the daisies and the thistle. Baby raccoons! Two of them, at that!

A couple of days ago we had to put down three of our pets / animals. Light-bill (our oldest duck), Jack (our male duck), and Tiny (the half-blind guinea girl, that was now completely blind in one eye 'cause something must've pecked her in it). That was sad, but at least they are no longer suffering here.

You probably remember in my last post that I said my Aunt Mel was going to be coming down soon and bringing us a cat. Well, she did so last week.. as a matter a fact it was this day last week, I believe! And she did bring us our cat, and I just finally got a couple good pictures of him yesterday. He absolutely loves it outside. Right now we are keeping him in the barn until he gets used to the place and everything (not that I think he'd run off too far, but a running cat is kind of hard to chase down!), but he already knows how to push the barn door open, so we have to keep the latch over the door while he's in there!

There's my little kitty! We had a terrible time thinking of a name for him. Levi, Megan, and I were leaning toward either Theodore or Alfred (so we could call him either Teddy or Alfy, lol), but neither Mom or Dad liked that, so we eventually decided on Sunshine… and we get to call him Sunny for short!

Which I think is kind of funny, since our last cat was named Stormy.. and now we have Sunny!

And, to top it all off, Megan has shared some exciting news over at her blog, which some of you may have already heard about. But if you haven't, I'm going to keep you in suspense until you go read Megan's post!

Last week Mom and I went back to WV for a quick trip to pick Megan back up and bring her back for another visit with us (which we're all greatly enjoying!). It's actually been one week already today that she's been here with us! How strange that time flies by so quickly.

Sometime soon we will be getting a little kitty cat for the barnyard, Lord willing! I *think* it's the one on the first picture all the way to the left (who looks like he's about ready to punch the camera ), but there's two orange ones so I kind of get confused as to which one it is. Right now they are at my Aunt Mel's house, but I think she's going to be bringing one down here soon.

It's a male, short haired, and orange. I am really hoping he'll turn out to be a good mouse cat, because we've really been getting a lot of mice around here lately and I'm not too good at catching them myself! We haven't decided on a name for him though, I reckon that'll wait until we get to know his personality a bit, then can decide on a proper name for him!

In the left picture you'll notice Shadow getting a drink…..out of Dad's water cup!! LOL! He must've really liked that cold water! And in the right picture you'll see the chair I was sitting in, beside Megan, only when I got up my seat was instantly taken by someone else….Hannah! That silly goat!

I'm sure by now ya'll are wanting to see the updated pictures of the barn structure. Ah well, I suppose I've kept you waiting in suspense long enough!

There you have it, friends! All our progress made since my last post, and it sure is a lot, isn't it? I'm very thankful that the LORD has kept us safe while we've worked on it, especially when Dad and Levi were up on the very top metal roof putting it on and doing stuff!!

Dad started his vacation last week (He's off for the entire month of September!) and we have been busy working on building a goat / storage barn thing ever since. We're building it over behind Woofie's dog pen (currently inhabited by the goats), but before we could do that, we had to take half the fence down on the dog pen (putting up a temporary fence in the middle to separate it and to be able to keep the goats in the pen still) and dig out a stump that was in the way so we could start building!

Dad bought an electric concrete mixer so we wouldn't have to mix all that concrete by hand (and let me tell you it makes it much easier!! And quicker!). After squaring everything up and all that, Levi and Dad dug the 6 holes that we needed to be able to put up the 6 posts (6×6's that were 16 feet tall!!), which we did yesterday, and also braced them all and poured the holes full of concrete!

While the concrete was drying yesterday, Levi and I both got to write in the concrete! My 6 on the 16 didn't quite turn out like I wanted it too, lol! Writing in concrete is fun ~ and whatever you wrote will always be there later!

With all the braces on the posts, it makes it like a maze to get through! Especially when we were trying to weave the concrete mixer in and out, and also the wheel barrow full of 3 bags of concrete! Definitely a challenge not to hit the braces!

I'll try to keep you updated on the progress of the building, maybe I can write up a post in the evenings here and there when I'm not too absolutely exhausted! Yesterday evening I felt like I was covered in concrete dust from all the concrete we were mixing up! LOL!